Thursday, May 5, 2005, 1:16:05 PM, you wrote: RH> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:57:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> The savings of creating static libraries would be small if we >> refrained from building non-PIC object files.
RH> But still largely useless. Who in their right mind is going to RH> use an 83MB static library when a shared library is available. Everyone on win32 builds libgcj static, and probably wants to keep it that way if they plan to distribute their apps. What would be the point of distributing a giant shared library with every application compiled with gcj, especially when awt/swing only hook into gtk? I don't think libgcj.dll will ever be standard on any distribution of win32, yet the many advantages of compiling java code to fast, native executables apply on this platform.
